Léon Coutil

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Léon Coutil (born October 13, 1856 in Les Andelys or Villers-en-Vexin , Département Eure ; † January 25, 1943 in Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray , Eure) was a French artist, prehistorian and archaeologist .

Life

Coutil was born in 1856 in the hamlet of Villers sur Andelys in Les Andelys or Villers-en-Vexin. From 1878 to 1882 he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the State College of Fine Arts in Paris . From 1880 to 1889 he exhibited portraits and etchings in the Salon de Paris . In 1882 he returned to Les Andelys and began to be interested in archeology.

A flint cut in Levallois technique from the Léon Coutil collection, now in the Museum of Toulouse

Coutil was the curator of the first museum in Les Andelys and collected artifacts from the Old and New Stone Age and the Gallo-Roman period , some of which are now exhibited in the new Nicolas-Poussin Museum in the Léon Coutil room . Parts of the collection are exhibited in the museums of Toulouse , Évreux and Louviers . He carried out excavations in Pîtres (Eure) and found Gallo-Roman thermal baths and an ancient theater there . In Incarville (Eure) he discovered a Gallo-Roman villa .

In 1904 Coutil founded the learned society Société préhistorique française ('French Society for Prehistory'). He was a member of the Société normande d'études préhistoriques ('Norman Society for Prehistoric Studies') as well as various other learned societies. He inventoried archaeological finds from Normandy and made drawings that are still considered important documents today. His most important work was the inventory of the finds from the tumulus of La Hogue in Fontenay-le-Marmion ( Department Manche ). For his achievements, he was appointed correspondant du Ministère de l'Instruction publique (about 'corresponding member of the Ministry of Education ').

Works (selection)

A Levallois lace from the Léon Coutil collection, Museum Toulouse

He published about 125 writings in scientific journals from various learned societies.

  • Archeology gauloise, gallo-romaine, franque et carolingienne: département de l'Eure . tape 1-5 . E. Dumont, Lestringant, R. Duguet, E. Leroux, Paris, Évreux, Louviers, Rouen, Beaugency (French, 1895–1925; each volume covers an arrondissement).
  • L'Epoque gauloise dans le sud-ouest de la Belgique et le nord-ouest de la Celtique . Sépultures et mobilier funéraire des Caletes, Veliocasses, Eburovices, Lexovii, Esuvii, Viducasses, Baïocasses, Ambivarete et Unelli. Eug. Izambert, Louviers 1902 (French).
  • Essai d'inventaire des mottes et enceintes du département de l'Orne . Monnoyer, Le Mans 1910 (French).
  • Les Tumulus de l'Europe centrale, groupe de la Basse Alsace, région d'Haguenau et Bischwiller . Monnoyer, Le Mans 1914 (French).
  • L'art mérovingien et carolingien . Sarcophages, stèles funéraires, cryptes, baptistères, églises, or fèvrerie et bijouterie. J. Bière, Bordeaux 1930 (French).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d C.-E. Curinier (ed.): Dictionnaire national des contemporains . contenant les notices des membres de l'Institut de France, du gouvernement et du parlement français, de l'Académie de médecine. tape 6 . Office général d'éd. de librairie et d'impr., Paris, p. 46 f . (French, gallica [accessed August 12, 2012] 1914–1918).
  2. ↑ Coutil, Léon (1856-1943). Notice d'autorité personne. In: BNF catalog général. Bibliothèque nationale de France , March 16, 2010, accessed on August 14, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ Le Musée Municipal Nicolas Poussin. La Salle Léon Coutil. (No longer available online.) In: office-tourisme.ville-andelys.fr. Office Municipal de Tourisme, archived from the original on November 15, 2008 ; Retrieved August 12, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / office-tourisme.ville-andelys.fr
  4. ^ Martine François: Coutil Léon. In: Cths. congrès des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, March 26, 2010, accessed on August 12, 2012 (French).
  5. ↑ Vincent Carpentier, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Cyril Marcigny: Archéologie en Normandie . Ed .: Inrap. Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7373-4164-9 , pp. 18 (French).
  6. ^ Dominique Cliquet: L'Eure . 27. In: Michel Provost, Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministere de la culture (ed.): Carte Archéologique de la Gaule . Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87754-018-9 , p. 14th f . (French).
personal data
SURNAME Coutil, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coutil, Léon Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist, prehistorian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Les Andelys or Villers-en-Vexin , Département Eure
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1943
Place of death Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray , Eure department